عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
RA645.O23 G88 2011
RA645
.
O23
G88
2011
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0520266242 (cloth : alk. paper)
(Number (ISBN
0520266250 (pbk. : alk. paper)
(Number (ISBN
9780520266247 (cloth : alk. paper)
(Number (ISBN
9780520266254 (pbk. : alk. paper)
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
dltt
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Weighing in :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
obesity, food justice, and the limits of capitalism /
First Statement of Responsibility
Julie Guthman
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Berkeley :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of California Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 227 p. :
Other Physical Details
maps ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
California studies in food and culture ;
Volume Designation
32
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
What's the problem? -- How do we know obesity is a problem? -- Whose problem is obesity? -- Does your neighborhood make you fat? -- Does eating (too much) make you fat? -- Does farm policy make you fat? -- Will fresh, local, organic food make you thin? -- What's capitalism got to do with it? -- What's on the menu?
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This book takes on the "obesity epidemic," challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. The author examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent "obesity" are sensible, efficacious, or ethical. She also focuses the lens of obesity on the broader food system to understand why we produce cheap, over-processed food, as well as why we eat it. She takes issue with the currently touted remedy to obesity, promoting food that is local, organic, and farm fresh. While such fare may be tastier and grown in more ecologically sustainable ways, this approach can also reinforce class and race inequalities and neglect other possible explanations for the rise in obesity, including environmental toxins. Arguing that ours is a political economy of bulimia, one that promotes consumption while also insisting upon thinness, she offers a complex analysis of our entire economic system
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS NOTE (ELECTRONIC RESOURCES)
Text of Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Obesity-- Social aspects
Obesity-- psychology
Social Problems
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
362
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196/398
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
RA645
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O23
Class number
RA645
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O23
Book number
G88
2011
Book number
G88
2011
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
2011
K-246
Class number
WD
210
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Guthman, Julie
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20160427145515.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
